about relationships
las conexiones (relaciones) dan significado. relaciones humanas, relaciones entre ideas.
about relationships
A veces imagino las relaciones humanas como algo blando, agua o arena, y que al verterlas en un recipiente concreto les damos forma. Así, la relación entre una madre y su hija se vierte en un recipiente etiquetado como «madre e hija» y adquiere los contornos del envase, y ahí dentro se queda, para bien o para mal. Puede que unas amigas enemistadas
... See moreSally Rooney • Dónde Estás, Mundo Bello
Friendships are, by their very nature, made of friction. To know what is going on in someone’s day-to-day life, to make plans with them, and then reschedule those plans when someone inevitably gets sick, and then bring over Calpol or soup or an extra laptop charger. To water their plants while they’re away, to ask them to take your kids when you’re... See more
Rosie Spinks • The Friendship Problem
Myself and people my age have been trained under the illusion that we can effectively eliminate any and all friction from our lives. We can work from home, Amazon prime everything we need, swipe through a limitless array of mediocre dates, text our therapist, and have a person go to the grocery store for us when we don’t feel like it, all while con... See more
Rosie Spinks • The Friendship Problem
Life does not consist of a set of unrelated dyadic relationships (you and your mum, you and your daughter, you and your best friend). Rather, these dyadic relationships are all embedded within a complex network of relationships where what happens in one dyad spills over and affects what happens in another.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
The richest relationships are often those that don’t fit neatly into the preconceived slots we have made for the archetypes we imagine would populate our lives—the friend, the lover, the parent, the sibling, the mentor, the muse. We meet people who belong to no single slot, who figure into multiple categories at different times and in different mag... See more
Maria Popova • Figuring
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